Water Cycle Test Review

What is the water cycle?

• the process through which water evaporates

• the path water takes from Earth to the clouds and back again

• the path water takes from the mountain top to the soil

• the process of water falling from the clouds

Which of these describes evaporation?

• water vapor becomes a liquid

• Plants lose water through their leaves

• what comes down must go up

• water warms up and becomes a vapor

What is transpiration?

• the process in which plants release water through their leaves back into the air.

• the process in which humans release sweat through their skin back into air

• what happens when water vapor into a liquid

• the scientific name for the water cycle

What is the process in which water vapor changes to liquid?

• aviation

• evaporation

• water runoff

• condensation

What do water droplets form?

• clouds

• condensation

• nutrients

• humidity

What is the water cycle driven by?

• gravity and the sun

• the sun and the ocean

• gravity and mass

• Jupiter and Mars

The water on Earth is continuously moving.

• True

• False

Water in the atmosphere is pulled back down to the land because of ...

• The Sun

• The Moon

• Gravity

• The Universe

Oceans cover how much of the Earth's surface?

• 50%

• 75%

• 3%

• 97%

How much of the water on Earth is Salt Water?

• 45%

• 3%

• 14%

• 97%